CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0420

Published: Mar 17, 1999 | Modified: Aug 17, 2022

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0420
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

umapfs allows local users to gain root privileges by changing their uid through a malicious mount_umap program.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Umapfs	Netbsd	*	*

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0420

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